@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

so much stress over a $50 drive

What $50 SSD is installed in this array?!

They were more the first time I bought them. they are currently $171 on amazon https://smile.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-256GB-SKC400S37-256G/dp/B019SDOASM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541115262&sr=8-1&keywords=kingston+kc400

so much stress over a $50 drive

sounds like i've hopefully found somewhere that can get it to me by tomorrow

the only other person I really trust is going with me on my trip.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue technically speaking, you could have the receptionist install this drive.

But do you trust that person?

nope

i am working on it though. maybe I can get one by saturday or something

yeah, its just bad timing. the day is almost over, so I dont think I could get something by tomorrow, and I leave sunday morning and am out of town for a week.

One did die. But I dont have a spare for this on hand.

@Dashrender said in question on veeam backup:

@Donahue said in question on veeam backup:

@Dashrender said in question on veeam backup:

@Donahue said in question on veeam backup:

However, like I mentioned a few posts up, I have considered not deduping my file server. I am also considering replacing it entirely with something different like NC, but I havent got that far yet.

So you're deduping the storage on the backup server AND running dedup on the fileserver?

currently, yes. And since my storage is all intermingled, it makes it very hard to know how much belongs to either. I don't like it and I am working on changing it all around.

Intermingled?

my backups and my production stuff for the most part are currently running on synology NAS's.

I think one of the SSD's in my raid 10 just died. the raid card is beeping.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

my wife said it was now november and she would start playing christmas music.

@Dashrender said in question on veeam backup:

@Donahue said in question on veeam backup:

However, like I mentioned a few posts up, I have considered not deduping my file server. I am also considering replacing it entirely with something different like NC, but I havent got that far yet.

So you're deduping the storage on the backup server AND running dedup on the fileserver?

currently, yes. And since my storage is all intermingled, it makes it very hard to know how much belongs to either. I don't like it and I am working on changing it all around.

However, like I mentioned a few posts up, I have considered not deduping my file server. I am also considering replacing it entirely with something different like NC, but I havent got that far yet.

@Kris_K yep, that was it!

@NerdyDad said in question on veeam backup:

@Donahue That is used if you have a backup appliance, such as ExaGrid, that you are sending your backups to.

I think I remember reading that windows dedupe should have used this setting too, but that was a few years back and my memory is a little fuzzy.

flying to NOLA sunday morning for an ERP conference.

I presume it works by being able to dedupe all backups against the other backups from other backup jobs. I have the compression level set to dedupe-friendly as opposed to "optimal" which is the default setting. I probably set it up this way because I probably read somewhere that windows dedupe was more effective than veeam compression, but I've honestly never done an A:B test to know for sure in my environment. Maybe my next step should be to configure multiple jobs to test the various likely settings that might be used and see what has the best overall storage ratio. That might help give more information about where should be, or at least the storage veeam.

I also just remembered that I had the thought a week ago or so that windows dedupe might be hurting my restore times and overall performance, and that might a reason not to use it (this thought applied to my file server too).

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

As a kid, I have zero memory of anyone ever dressing up at school. Or wanting to. Or anyone even discussing it. We did for trick or treating, of course, but at school it just... was never a consideration unless I've just blanked it out.

huh - your school just gets weirder and weirder.

Just wasn't much of a thing when I was a kid. Trick or treating was a minor affair. People barely got into it, being from the country trick or treating has to mean driving from house to house, so it was a crazy amount of work for very little candy.

You mean where you were a kid. We definitely dressed up for halloween in my schools growing up.

Yes, when "I was a kid" was referring to when I personally was a child

well - I was a child at the same time as you, just a different location.. and we did costuming in school

Big city kids versus country kids I would guess.

Or the sheer difference of experience of SAM vs literally everyone else ever. From what I've seen and read, your "normal" has little to do with what everyone else's experiences.

haha

@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

@Donahue said in DNS Update Issue:

its very possible that my issue could have been both DC 1 and DC 2 being unavilable and the clients flipping to DNS2 which is a public DNS, in which case that could be why my internal resources were not able to be found at that time. We had some network issues around the same time too, maybe they overlapped and I just didn't put 2+2 together.

Oh - good reminder - your secondary DNS was google - yeah of course you could no longer get to local resources, google's DNS knowns nothing of your internal servers, so lookups would fail.
This is why you never give clients an external DNS entry in IP settings.

in my case, the public was number 3, after both DC's, but the point remains.